Tyranny Thomas Paine Quotes & Sayings

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. — Thomas Paine

Are you really reading that, or are you just trying to show off?" I asked, lowering myself into the seat.
He looked over the paper, opened his mouth, and a torrent of foreign words flew out.
"Okay, sorry, just asking. Wait, how many of those were curse words? — Myra McEntire

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. — Thomas Paine

If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table. — Frank Underwood

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. — Susan Sontag

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean. — Lana Del Rey

Self trust is the essence of heroism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay. — Caroline Corr

He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong — Robert Green Ingersoll

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. — Thomas Paine

Can I still dunk ... Are you stupid? — Michael Jordan

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. — Ralph Thomas Walker

We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known. — Thomas Paine

The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny. — Thomas Paine

I don't mind not being cool. — Chris Martin

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. — Bonnie Raitt

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. — Thomas Paine

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. — Saoirse Ronan

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine

The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience. — George W. Bush

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. — Thomas Paine

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced. — Thomas Paine

HALT stands for hungry, angry, lonely and tired and you should never make a decision when you are any of those things. — Gary Halbert

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity. — Thomas Paine

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. — Thomas Paine

Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game — Nick Saban

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors ... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done! — Frederick Douglass

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but
the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,
have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and England
hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in
time an asylum for mankind. — Thomas Paine

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine